Anthea Ilpide

“With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? No, no; she has qualities which may be trusted; she will never lead any one really wrong; she will make no lasting blunder; where Emma errs once, she is in the right a hundred times.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Love is the child that breathes our breath. Love is the child that scatters death.”
― William Blake

“Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealor revelator. Look at it rising up and rising down, taking everything with it."
"What's that," I asked.
"Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.”
― Peter Van Houten